I think you are never to old to start, though you may be too old for Boxing/MT sparring. I’ve seen some really technical old man BJJ break the souls of some youngsters.
I just started martial arts at 35 years and it was one of the best decisions I took, so you should be fine, too. The first month was really rough for me, untill I adapted, but then things started to get smoother. I might not recommend taekwondo since you need a lot of flexibility there but I picked shotokan karate and I’m very happy.
Omg you are 35? Shit i was giving you a break thinking you were 16
Wow
At my old school we had a 65 year old.
Yes and I already grown to fucking hate them. Or even guys who half ass shrimp or don’t even do high ones. Like the point is to be as tired, no?
Taekwondo will make you flexible. Nobody is going to expect you to kick head height on your first lesson.
ok its never too late to start but depending on what you wanna do you gotta recognize two different points.
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you are going to have to work to be flexible. Imo flexibility is one of the most important things you can do as a martial artists no matter the style. alot of more modern martial arts incorperates it into the style, but you will def have homework to do. Its gonna fuckin suck, but depending on what you do, its gonna prolong your longevity in whatever style you do. Its very great as injury prevention, so many injuries can be negated by just being a bit more flexible. ive worked on it since i was around 18-21, now im known as the guy who’s double jointed when im not. i just worked really fuckin hard almost every night for a long time to get that well. I was def not flexible when i started.
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listen to your body, its very important to pay attention. dont be a touch guy and try to fight through injuries. especially at a later stage in life. its important to recognize when your body is telling you important info. Dont just ignore it, if something is bothering you go get it checked out before it becomes a bigger problem.
The warm up purpose is to build conditioning and get your hr into fat burning levels
Also it is a way to test your mettle
Well for me
It is a great way to avoid injury and make sure you don’t go in cold for drills/rolling
Going in cold is dumb af
I agree. But then again the best 4stripe white belt in the class always half asses the warmups but he dominates every other white in class and taps mid level blues swiftly in randori/open mat. Fairly athletic guy but I think he just hates warmups
Just signed up for Kickboxing. I’ve taken kickboxing in the past for mostly fitness reasons but I’m curious to see if I could take it to another level this time around. If I like the way things are going, I would like to branch out to other forms of martial arts as well.
I can’t remember exactly his name, but a surfing legend started BJJ at the young age of 50 (more or less, couldn’t find the story).
He’s now a black belt.
Getting a black belt in BJJ means he competed with younger men in tournaments and was able to eventually win enough to earn the black belt.
There’s no age limit to training. Helio Gracie would grapple his full grown and world class grandsons at 90+, and could win.
One of our senseis started Kendo during a very hard time when he was 40 years old. He’s now 65 and he’s a 3rd soon to be 4th degree black belt. Never too old.
Kendo has belts?
most martial arts have a belt system…its more rare to find one without a system than to find one with it.
Yeah ever since Judo most martial arts started adopting belt systems. Even Chinese arts use them now with sashes. There wasnt a ranking system before that, you were just a student.
Some use typical colored sash system, some I’ve seen just use one color for students, another for instructors, and then a black sash.
State wrestling champion=purple belt
College title=brown
All american=black belt
Ncaa title=1 stripe
Olympic=red
Olympic medal=coral
I know most just never knew Kendo had. Hell, never seen them with it while sparring either. Is it like no go where you don’t have to wear while practicing?
I had always wanted to take a martial art since I was a kid and finally decided to do so. I just had my first kenjutsu/aiki-jujutsu class this week and it went really well. A lot of the things they teach are applicable in real life situations (the form is based on what samurai were taught during feudalism and the instructor is a cop who has told me that a lot of the techniques and movement is stuff that he’s used on the job.) So I’m excited about getting to finally do this.
what do you guys think of Hapkido ? anybody trained it ? is it good ? From what I read/watched, seems like a very interesting martial art.